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Leitz Phone 1 is the first Leica-branded smartphone

But you’ll need to be in Japan to snap one up

Photography brands don’t get much more prestigious than Leica and, while the German company has leant its expertise to smartphones before (most recently in a long-running collaboration with Huawei), the Leitz Phone 1 is the first handset to bear the iconic red dot logo. Sadly for us, it’s exclusive to Japan, where it costs the equivalent of around £1,200.. Manufactured by SoftBank and armed with a 20MP rear camera with a huge 1in sensor, it appears to be a rebadged version of the (also Japan-only) Sharp Aquos R6 phone, which resulted from a new and ongoing partnership with Leica. Specs include a 6.6in OLED screen with 240Hz refresh rate, a 12.6MP front camera, IP68 waterproofing, Snapdragon 888 CPU, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Oh, and a lens cap for that camera too!

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Tech journalism's answer to The Littlest Hobo, I've written for a host of titles and lived in three different countries in my 15 years-plus as a freelancer. But I've always come back home to Stuff eventually, where I specialise in writing about cameras, streaming services and being tragically addicted to Destiny.

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